Problems with Hosted Network

Known Personal Area Network / WiFi Sharing problems:

Connectify

Windows has encountered an error initializing hostednetwork. (CF001006)

Virtual Router Error

netsh wlan start hostednetwork
The hosted network couldn’t be started.
A device attached to the system is not functioning.

Cause

The problem is caused when VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet1 / VMnet0 (from VMware Workstation) are active.

Resolution

1. Disable all VMnet virtual adapters.  Restart computer.
2. Change the Wifi mode from Wi-Fi Access Point to something else. Change it back. This alters the hostednetwork settings.

Related problem

Internet Connection Sharing

SharedAccess_NAT 34005
The ICS_IPV6 was unable to allocate bytes of memory

ShareAccess_NAT 34001

The ICS_IPV6 failed to configure IPv6 stack.

Network Resolution

Try changing HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\TCPIP6\Parameters\DisabledComponents (DWORD) to either 0x00000000 or 0xFFFFFFFF.

0x00000000 to enable all IPv6 functionality

0xFFFFFFFF to disable all IPv6 functionality

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